Core Commit 2013 Round 1, Jan 7 to Mar 17

[littleman]

Okay Core, come start the New Year right!  

Going along with Ergophobe's suggestion we're starting over.  This round will start on Jan 7 to make it clean with the new year.  If you are exercising this week you could mention it as your efforts for week 0, but I will not tally it up for the weekly count which will start next week.

To participate all you need to do is state your goal workouts per week and then do your workouts.  The weekly tallies will help to motivate you.  You and everyone else will see if you follow through on your commitments.

Join the Core Commit and make 2013 a great year!

So far we have:
Rumbas 3/week
Littleman 4/week
Drastic 5/week
Ergophobe 4/week
Eljefe3 5/week

[ergophobe]

I just did 20 pullups today for the first time in maybe 15 years. The extra day or two a week I get from this has been a subtle but huge boost for me. If you are on the fence - join us!

[Rumbas]

Awesome!
I did my first 5 full rom pull-ups the other day. Thrilled! The Commit is deff helping.

[ergophobe]

When we started at all this I think I was around 7 pullups, so you should be at 20 by 2014 ;-)

Realistically, our very different body types probably makes the pullup thing a lot easier for me. I'm a small skinny guy so strong relative to bodyweight doesn't make me all that strong in absolute terms!

[littleman]

Pullups are super satisfying, I guess it is the raw ability to pull your own body up -- to be the master of your own weight.  Congrats guys.

[bill]

I've missed a few so I might as well join this one. I was doing 5 days a week for years, but I started in on Intermittent Fasting with a LeanGains variant and was advised to cut back to 3 days a week in the gym. I've kept to that over the past year and cut about 12kg. I'm still looking to cut a few more kilos and stay roughly the same strength.

[littleman]

Great to have you Bill.

[eljefe3]

I'm in for 5 days this round.  Nice on the 20 pull ups Tom.  I get to 10 and call it good, give it a 2 minute rest then another 10.

[ergophobe]

4/4 - double session today. Weightlifting early morn and climbing afternoon.

My legs were trembling walking back to the car after climbing, so not sure it was the best idea!

>>Great to have you Bill.

There goes the neighborhood! Oh, but that's what Bill said when I joined The Core ;-)

[bill]

There goes the neighborhood! Oh, but that's what Bill said when I joined The Core ;-)

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Um... Silly question: How are we tracking weeks? It's what I'd call mid-week here in Bill-land....or ergo is a bit pre-mature... 

[littleman]

Eljefe3, I added you to the list.
Bill, the due date for reporting is Monday for the previous Monday through Saturday -- the idea is to have the weekends to catch up if you fall behind.  Ergophobe just finished this week remarkably early.

[Rumbas]

Right, I get my best work-outs in the weekends where I have the time and energy to crush it.

[ergophobe]

Usually I do Sat/Sun as my main workouts, but Sun was a sloth day and then I had commitments to exercise with friends Tues noon, Wed morning and Wed noon, so... I ended up with four workouts, but Wed noon was not exactly my best performance ever. Didn't die, though, so that's always a successful climbing day.

Taught a friend to ski today too. My wife is kicking my butt though - she's doing P90X and that's 6x/week (and hard workouts).

[bill]

Bill: 3/3

I got this week done. I generally keep my weekends for recovery.

[Drastic]

Going to start out with a bang, I've had a virus for over a week.

0/5

Hopefully back to 100% on Monday.